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Friday Math Fun #23: “Crossing the Bridge”

June 17, 2011 – 9:27 am

Every Friday, our resident mathematician, Tim Eller, puts out a math challenge to the company. Starting today, we’re going to open this game up to our readers too. -Mark In the black of night, four people come to a rickety narrow bridge over a chasm. The bridge can hold at most two people at a [...]

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Magical Block Store: When Abstractions Fail Us

April 24, 2011 – 8:33 am

This post is one in a series discussing storage architectures in the cloud. Read Network Storage in the Cloud: Delicious but Deadly and On Cascading Failures and Amazon’s Elastic Block Store for more insight. Like anyone who has anything to do with the business of running applications attached to the Internet, I can’t help but [...]

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A New Abode for Node

November 9, 2010 – 6:03 pm

As Ryan Dahl mentions in his post, Joyent has officially become the new home for Node.js. We are excited and honored to be investing this active open source project, and we’re thrilled at the response the technology has received. We believe Node.js is a foundational technology that will enable developers to build the next generation [...]

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Bowl Noodles

August 25, 2010 – 6:12 pm

The Grand Champion of noodles-in-a-bowl at Joyent Engineering HQ: Now you know what’s keeping us going as we prep some cool stuff for Node Knockout!

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Welcome Layerboom!

July 29, 2010 – 12:34 am

The official PR is here, but I wanted to say welcome to the Layerboom engineers who have joined us in the Vancouver office. It’s worth noting that The Cambie is not in fact our office, but a dandy place for a beer and snack. -Mark

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Arise chicken! Arise!

June 17, 2010 – 10:57 am

Spotted this bit of code in the test suite behind one of our Javascript agents: Made my day. -Mark

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Ruby / Rails community building in action

July 18, 2007 – 11:26 pm

One of the nice things about living in a city like Vancouver is that there’s enough geek population to support user groups, even for rather “niche” languages like Ruby or Python. I’ve always been interested in community development (opensource and otherwise) and in particular what happens when communities are “tested”. That’s happening right now in [...]

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How to completely ruin a great piece of server kit (regarding the Sun X4200 M2)

April 17, 2007 – 4:26 am

Here’s how you do it. First, you take what is considered a pinnacle of x86 server design, the glorious x4200 where every single chip has been selected for maximum reliability and performance. Like, say, the quad on-board Intel Gigabit Ethernet chips. Then, you create a new revision called the x4200 “M2” and replace the first [...]

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